A $50,000 bond was set Tuesday for a Pine Bluff man accused of fleeing an Arkansas State Trooper who was initiating a traffic stop.
Pine Bluff District Judge John Kearney set the bond for Bruce Washington 31, after finding prosecutors have probable cause to charge him with felony fleeing, suspended driver’s license, no insurance, and failure to stop at a stop sign.
Reading from a probable cause affidavit from the Arkansas State Police, Deputy Prosecutor Joe West explained that on Saturday, January 14th, a trooper initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle Washington as driving because the license tags returned back expired and registered to another vehicle.
West went on to explain that during the traffic stop initiation, the driver began to flee.
West added that suspected drugs were found in the vehicle but they haven’t been examined to charge Washington as of yet. Washington has previous convictions of property theft, residential burglary, terroristic threatening, and multiple failures to appear in Pine Bluff District court.
He was told to return to court on February 17th and he said he would hire his own attorney.
